Tabulating device for type-writing machines.



ZATENTED APR: i, 1905.

TABULATING DEVICE APPLIGATION FILED JULY 9, 1903.

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J. B. QEGUE. v TABULATENG DEVICE FOR TYPE WRITING MAQYINLS,

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-1 1 atoning JEROME B. SECOR, OF DER Y, CONNECTICUT, ASSEG LIAMS TYPE; RITER COB'EPANY,

PORATION OF IOWA.

EaEECIFICATION forming part of Letters Eatent No. 786,667, dated April 1905. Application filed July 9, 1903. Serial No. 164,819.

To all 20700720 it may concern:

Be it known that l, Jnnonn B. Snoon, a citizen of the United States, residing at Derby, in the countyof New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tabulating Devices for 'lype-Vfriting Idachines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in tabulating devicesfor type-writing machines; and its object is to provide a tabulating stop mechanism which will serve as a column-stop and will be entirely independent in its operation of the release device for the carriage, said release device being, in fact, the ordinary device operated by a finger-piece to release the carriage from the step-by-step feed mechanism and allow it to be moved either way by hand.

The invention comprises a stop or series of stop devices mounted on the frame arranged to be movable into the path of one or more dogs mounted on the carriage. Preferably I employ a range of said dogs mounted at fixed distances apart from end to end of the carriage by pivots or otherwise, so as to adapt them to be separately slid transversely to the carriage into or out of cooperative position with relation to the stop devices on the frame. The distance between the carriage-dogs may be one inch, more or less, to provide for printing as many columns as desirable from side to side of the paper, or they may be lixcd at greater or at unequal distances apart to suit the width of columns to be printed or to meet other special requirements. Normally the carriage-dogs and also the stop devices on the frame rest in retracted position, leaving the carriage free for ordinary type-writing work. W hen column-work is to be done, the selected carriage-dogs are set in operative position to locate the several columns and the selected stop device on the frame is moved by its key into operative relation to the carriage-dog to determine the decimal value of the first figure to be printeo in the column. The operation of the stop devices is not dependent upon or connected with the operation of the releaselever. This construction has several advantagcs. When the operator presses a columnstop, he may at the same time with the other hand take hold of the release-lever and move the carriage or allow it more under his control to position against the stop, thus avoiding the banging due to release by the usual type of column-stop keys. it has been proposed to avoid such ljlanging by use of a special movable dog on the carriage; but such a construction did not provide for varying the stop-point according to denomination to be printed except by a cumbersome arrange ment of multiple dogs on the carriage. My construction effects this result with a minimum of addition to the ordinary machine, no new or additional release-levers being required and no new work being brought on the usual releasedever. which performs only its usual function. Furthermore, the operator with my device need not work the release-lever at all, as he may simply press the space, dash, or other key repeatedly while holding the proper tabulating-stop until the carriage is arrested. In closecolumn work this is, in fact, a convenient method of operation.

Parts of my invention may be carried into effect with the use of dogs on the carriage similar to the usual marginal-stop dogs adjustable iongitudinally on the carriage, many such dogs being provided as there may be columns to be printed.

In the accoimmnying drawings, Figurel is a front view, partly broken away, of a typewriting machine provided with my tabulating device. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of said machine from front to back. Fig. 3 is a rear view of the same, showing the frame partly in section. Fig. a is a detail plan view of a portion of the front 1 ar of the carriage and a series of stop-dogs mounted equidistantly thereon and adjustable back and forward on fixed pivots to set them in or out of operative position. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the pivoted dogs detached. Fig. 6 an end view, partly in section, of the carriage and upper part of the frame, showing a modr tied form of key-operated stop devices mount-- the frame. tho front 1)?" I phin viov' 'o with t moon l igg. 25 is n dot-f )liJiWl oi ti o hori- 11 r: om-o w riiigo Withdogs sihi ramiitzilly their/n1: mad adaptedtocoop with stop Cori-a 1 tho frznno in iocno i horuinaftor do vino to which my in" .r; of :1 ny usual typo singShonsnn :nvnts---n:inioiy fume haPG 9,, with s; actuating device or hiient mechanism contho feed (i vihc unrrnrgo koyhonrc? rn, oi rvh tho hcylovors .iro indii our (3, oporzitod o5;

i a {UK unii'orszil thc io rhozmi :nul coon-oiling tho osmpoinoiit haw shown 1- towioi 2i Y-RJiilfii T iion 9 to tho chi-ringein tho 11511211 lnzznnmx QSMtDCUISHi) consisti shaft 8, geared by A rook "ii and QSCflDQYTiOllhiOg ing sum Jrt if conncctod h iinh 13 1.0 the noivorszi lover and hzir 6. ,ztny other iood (:npcniont nzochnnisiii may, h-owm'or, ho used. The means For rolons'n g tho carriogio from tho tood-osuigioinmit i: so he of any usual construction, and iii the rirticiihir Form of in ronrrnt sho may he mhiptod toz opzirzite tho ogiorzitivcon gvmcnt of tho inch with the pinion or ot the starwhooi with the oscziooi' ont, 2111(- in tho Batter case it nizzjifloporzito by morin tho star-whoa} or h moving the nornniii fo agin dog. E hart: shori'n tho last -n2nniii i you said dog (shown at at) being; monntmi or.- tho siip iort 1:2 by 1, slot-mzd-pin connootior 3th riiiowii'igzi, rorticiii z'oi-, 1 io movoi'nm'i'i. in at tion to the lateral rocking nioi'cinont on tho :ircis I L of support '12 "or (as pennant and tho hmgiirztiirmi rocking movement on tho pin- :init-shit pivot 30 in c oopiny .hc reioziscicvor pivoioii on trio rsrriiii r, UpOiililQS ii rocking or shiftuhh? h 16, also (:i the cur rings. cng'zigg'ing or i oil-oi i Mk ioror 1 6'1, pivoted to :iiixeii frinno part and oprrzlti (M ongnging' with tho li Ul'CSHi n10 flog; i, so that when said icror to is open it wiii rohiaisc the dog from tho siiir-whco tho "illiilgd to ho niovi'wi trio i i o; )0 rators hand il fiififii to tho rv misc-i .5311 of tho above 52; Liii) Hililiiifl ii "tin-- tho of at niachinc to which my invention may he amphcd and thcr form no gart oi said invention cxco t in coznidnntion with tho tai nhit 7 dcvicoitow to hciiosxcrihcd. Such tzihnhit n'g LiOViCO oijm'inriscs number of dogs Elh, i310: itod on bar 1.? on t io carriago, [J-EOftfch11 :Eii] iixoil ihstrinccs iisinuier, i15 ihistriitmi in I I, 4;, and T. are hora shown moor sod on fixed pivots it in onuiiii I '2 and. mijnstzihhs i)i'i(,ii\'\'tti(i and Iorv H11 in ()f (%iti1i\'i or ilflopfii o )osition i with 3 1o loft-hzinii lei-or.

: i"? 23, sliding in i'hzr-ii frame-plate 2i, on; those iorors r to press than hack into in izith of dogs 2-6, and springs set on SflHi lovers to press :r to provide for variable :1 7 car. w lQ- each column-stop to on: orzitor :gin Writing at the i for different lonoz iinitions and to iose thoro must he man i o?" tho stow-- i L i i W L 2O as there are iioi'ioniinations to tho adjacent lovers being so tance of one space or feed;

it boing understood that i'lOll'Hu sto riovors are in inoporativc poi ooerzitor can use his machine in the it i without an interfere-n00 by tho tzihnhit' vice. at in time COiHfilZlitiliOi] d thlogs 26 aro sot sccordiugly so" coiinnn operation the propor denoa'n:nrmonm 9 stop 20 is p i semi with one hand, w iiie tho ope 'sitor with tho other hand nriipiiri s tho roicziso-lover 15 to free the can 5 it to more to h the next dog" 29 n gagenicnt with one stop or, as above 5 the oporzitor instead of h: mil mg the re iovor may simply work the stQ h ,'-.;tep in until the corrizigc arrested.

instead of using ii comb, as above; describo'ih the lovers 20 may be arming-co side by s ports them against deflection h It iinniatwial to the invention Whether the equidistant dog's ho pivotsd or mounted to slide or Whothcr the forward or hackii'ziro :id '1ustn1oiit tho dogs ho the ope :itivo position. t' tho front be the operative posi- 1P6 tion, said dog hoy-cpomtc grievors 20, as shown in ,4. 2. i have sh n in 6 and T 26% adapted to he siiii backward and forward to opomtivo or inoperative positiom and a modified form of i ,i -oporstod stop-lore n'zoiintoii on we frame and adapted to thrown formirii into 6})9itilif6 position in- .it'nd o't' backward, as in Fig. 2. As in Figs.

: ors 20, Fig. *3, are mount- 1 tion in tho inachino'ramo J 1 use apart corresponding with one space in feed of the c: rriiigo.

in operation tile proper lover is anti n into cooperative reintio 26 or 26 to (iotorniine 5151;

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Y. op do, e. 20 c is adapted soles-Lou vseeov mounted at fixed distances asunder, as in Figs. 1, 4, and 7, or with the longitudinally-adjust able dogs 26 of Fig. 8. In like manner the pivoted dogs 26 shown in Fig. 5 may cooperate with stop-levers 20 shown in Fig. 2 or the stop-levers 20 of Fig. 6. Each of the said dogs is formed with a downturned lip 26" for sliding it in and out and with a project ing nose 26 to engage with the end of the stop-lever 20 or 20*. Fig. t shows the second dog from the left pulled forward into position to catch against the selected stop-lever 20 when this is pushed back, and thus arrest the carriage in position to print the first figure of any desired number. The other dogs are shown retracted in inoperative position. Fig. 6 shows the dog 26 next the observer pushed back to operative position ready to be engaged by the denominational stop-lever 20.

In the use of the term adjustable with reference to the stop-dogs on the carriage I intend to refer to dogs of either character herein indicated adjustable on the carriage either longitudinally or transversely in a suitable manner to adapt them in cooperation with the key-operated stop devices on the frame to locate the column in the line. Stop-dogs longitudinally adjustable on the carriage are common in the art and may be used in carrying some parts of my invention into effect.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a tabulatin g mechanism for type-writing machines, the combination with the carriage, its feed mechanism and keyboard mechanism controlling said feed mechanism; of the release-lever 15 pivoted on the carriage, the rocking bar pivoted on the carriage and operated by the lever 15, the lever 16 pivoted on the frame and operated by the bar 16; the escapement-dog engaged by the lever 16 so as to release the carriage when the bar 16 is depressed; stop-clogs mounted on the carriage; and a suitable tabulating stop device on the frame operated independently of the carriage-release mechanism; whereby the operator is enabled with one hand to set the tabulating stop device to arrest the carriage in the position desired, and with the other hand to release and control the carriage in its movement to the left until so arrested.

2. In tabulating mechanism for type-writing machines, the combination with the machine-frame, the carriage, carriage-feed mechanism and escapement mechanism controlling the carriage-feed; of column-stop dogs adjustably mounted on the carriage, key-operated denominational stops mounted on the frame and engaging with the column-stop dogs on the carriage to arrest the latter in selected denominational positions in the several columns, and a separate carriage-release device mounted on the carriage, comprising a handlever, a rock-bar connected to and adapted to be actuated by said hand-lever, and a bellcrank lever connected to and adapted to be depressed by said rock bar and engaging the carriage-escapement device so as to re lease the carriage when so depressed, substantially as described.

3. In a tabulating mechanism for type-writ ing machines, the combination with the machine-frame, the carriage, and the carriagefeed mechanism, of a series of column-stops mounted on the carriage and movable thereon into and out of operative position, a series of denomination stop-levers fulcrumed by their lower ends on the machine-frame and severally movable into the path of either of the column-stops on the carriage which may be set in operative position, push-keys connected to said denomination stop-levers for moving them into such arresting position, and springs restoring the said stop-levers to normal position when released, substantially as described.

JEROME B. SEUOR.

Nitnesses:

C. BEARDSLEY,

J. P. CLARKE. 

